Baling-press.



TUTTLE.

BALING,PRESS. I APPLIOATION FILED-MAY 3,1906.

PATENTED MAR. 26, v1907.

2 SHEETS-'SHEET 1.

(LsTue PATENTBD MAR. ze. 1907.

J. s. TUTTLB. BALING PRESS. APPLIOATIONIILBD MAY 8,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEI@O JOSIAH S. TUTTLE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR `TO THE OHIO CULTIVATORCO., OF BELLEVUE, OHIO, A CORPORATION OFOHIO.

BALlNG-PRESS.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented'lVIarch 26, 1907.

Application filed May 8,1906. Serial No. 315,755.

Be it known that I, JosIAH S. TUTTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in `Ealing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to `baling-presses; and my object is to produce an efficient and reliable power mechanism for imparting to the plunger the usual comparatively long and quick preliminary or condensing portion of the stroke and the shorter and slower movement whereby the condensed baling material is compressed to the required degree in the baling-chamber.

A further object is to produce a mechanism of the character named which operates with a minimum of friction and which embodies the desirable features of simplicity, strength, durability, and cheapness of construction.

With these general objects in view and others, as hereinafter appear, the invention' consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization, as hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of a power mechanism embodying my invention, the head of the power-shaft being broken away to disclose parts below. Fig. 2is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line III III of Fig. 2 with the parts in the positions they occupy at the end of the power-stroke, Fig. 4 is a front view of the power-shaft frame. Fig. 5 is a section taken on the dotted line V of Eig. 1.

In the said drawings, 1 indicates the axle, reinforced, preferably, by angle-braces 2 and plate 3, connecting and interposed between the angle-braces and the axle. 3a indicates a circular casting secured upon the axleframe and provided with a rearwardly-projecting sleeve 1, wherein is secured the front end of the reach 5. The casting 3 is also provided, by preference, with a laterally-projecting arm 6, secured to an angle-bracket 7 and forming in conjunction with cap 8 a bearing for the power-shaft 9, provided with the usual trip-lever 10, said lever in this instance being shown as of the triple-arm type, `with each arm equipped with an antifriction-roller 11.

12 indicates an arm projecting rearwardly from the upperpart of bracket 7, and connecting said arm with the' baling-case (not shown) is a tie-bar 13, said bar being also engaged by the upper ends of vertical bolts 14 jecting arm 21 at its outer end.

22 indicates the plunger-beam, preferably of cylindrical form, as shown, and provided `at its under side with a wear-strip 23, resting upon the wear-plate 20, and provided at its .rear end with a depending arm 24 to engage the correspond-ing edge of the block 25, se-

cured against the under side of strip 23 by bolts 26, carried by the beam, one of the bolts 26 also extending through a rubber block or cushion 27, occupying and j projecting for- `wardly from a socket l28 in said block 25 and adapted when the plunger recoils to strike the abutment-block 19, the recoil of the plunger beingeffected in the usual manner by a retractile spring 29, secured at its front end, by preference, to the angle-plate 30, secured to bearing-cap 8.

31 indicates the plunger-head of the usual configuration in this type of press and provided with the usual end pocket 32, said head initially occupying the relation to the trip-lever shown in Fig. 1, and pivotally connected to said head and occupying planes above and below it and the trip-lever are links 33, pivotally connected at their opposite ends by a vertical bolt 34 to the swingframe 35, pivoted on bolt 15, and journaled on bolt 34 between the arms of said swingframe is a roller 36, engaging the convex side of the swinging track-arm 37, pivoted on bolt 14, the hub of the swinging frame 85 tending to limit the swinging movement of the trackarm in one direction and the roller 36 limiting such movement -in the opposite direction. The swinging track-arm also has a tread or track portion 38 at its extreme end, which IOO converges with respect to the track-surface engaged by roller 36.

In practicehthe parts normallyn'occupy the positions showngingFig. 1, so that when the team hitcheddtonthe.sweep 39 travels in the direction indicatedbydthedarrow one roller of the trip-leveriwillmengage the plunger-head and push the same outward slightly, while the roller in advance by engagement with tread-surface 38 of the swinging track-arm 37 will cause said arm to swing outward inthe direction indicated by the arrow a and byits engagement with roller 36 will cause the swingi'rame to operate and impart to the plungerbeam its rapid preliminary or condensing movement. By the time the plunger-beam hasmade approximately three-fifths of its stroke the Jrst-named antifrietion-roller will be entering the plunger-pocket 32 and the trip-lever roller in advance will be riding off the extreme end of the swinging track-arm, so as to clear the same by the time the other roller is imparting direct endwise pressure on the beam Ato complete the movement of the latter and compress the baling material tightly in the baling-case. When the stroke of the plunger is finished, it occupies the position shown in Fig. 3 and is arrested by the trip-off lug 40 to permit the engaging roller to ride out of the pocket and alinement with the beam, and thus permit the latter under the power of spring 29 to recoil to its original position and in such recoil return the swingframe and swinging track-arm to their original positions, it being understood in this connection that during the power-stroke of the plunger-beam the roller 36 rolls rearwardly upon the swinging track-arm and then rolls forwardly thereon under the recoiling movement of the beam. The recoil movement of the beam may be arrested in any suitable manner, but preferably by the mechanism shown most clearly in Fig. 5, the cushion 27 by engagement with the abutment-block 19 cushioning such recoil movement in an obvious manner. All future operations are repetitions of those described.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a power mechanism for baling-presses embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the object of the invention,

and I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be restricted to the exact construction shown and described, as various changes may be made in the form, proportion, detail construction, and arrangement of the parts without departing from the principle of construction involved.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is n i; i

1. A power mechanism "for baling-presses, comprising a power-shaft having a plurality of trip-arms, a plunger-beam, a swing-frame pivoted to the framework ofthe press rearward of the power-shaft and extending toward the latter, a link connecting the swingframe with the plunger-beam, and a curved swinging track-arm pivoted to the framework rearward of the swing-frame and exf tending through the latter and having a tread portion at its end for successive engagement by the trip-arms and adapted under the pressure of said trip-arms to swing away from the plunger-beam and impart like movement to the swing-frame.

2. In a baling-press, a suitable framework,

.a power-shaft journaled therein and provided with a sweep, a brace-bar secured to and extending rearwardly from the framework, a pair of vertical bolts mounted in the framework and said bar, a swing-frame pivoted for horizontal movement on the foremost bolt and projecting forwardly therefrom and provided with a roller, a curved swinging track-arm pivoted on the other of said bolts and having its convex edge engaging said roller and provided at its extreme end with a tread portion, a plunger-beam, links connecting the plunger-beam with the swing-frame, anda plurality of trip leverarms movable with the power-shaft and adapted to successively engage the tread portion of and operate the swinging trackarm and cause the same to operate the swingframe.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSIAH S. TUTTLE.

Witnesses:

EvERT A. KEMP, DELTON I. Lock. 

